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The Senior Specialist, Security will work with various teams within Ontario Health and with its health sector partners to ensure the timely, efficient, and quality delivery of Cyber Security products and services. They will contribute to the assessment, development, execution, and maturing of OH's information security programs, and serve as a security subject matter expert to the organization. The Senior Specialist, Security typically is an individual contributor that takes a leading role in various security governance and operational initiatives by providing security expertise, facilitating collaboration, and furthering the organization's objectives.
Identifies and recommends security controls and solutions, as well as the tactical approaches to deliver them, for product/services/and assessment initiatives that meet projects and customer needs and timelines, while adhering to overall OH security frameworks and approved methodologies and patterns.
Consults on and advises and influences product/portfolio project planning by identifying security by design and significant for products in a holistic approach to ensure end products and services are aligned with OH Security program requirements.
Assesses and identifies cross-product security control gaps and opportunities for mitigation and alignment with the security policies and standards and industry best practices, and advocates for solutions to address security gaps with product owners before releasing them to production.
Analyzes proposed solution architectures, technology, design, and IT development processes to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities, and to recommend options that enhance the security of solutions and business processes. Identifies, analyzes, and recommends options for risk management at appropriate levels within the enterprise and the health care sector.
Supports the development of roadmaps, program, and product vision.
Provides guidance on how to build and deploy secure solutions or placing compensating controls for business and technical challenges.
Identifies dependencies in project and product deliverables and provides guidance for planning and delivery.
Influences and guides senior and lead developers, IT Operations and Service Desk, and Architects related to Security requirements, vision, best practices, and principles.
Delivers internal security consulting services.
Works with a high level of autonomy in setting objectives based on minimal direction from management.
Collaborates with internal peers and local programs to ensure alignment of security practices, controls, patterns, and solutions to mitigate identified risks and gaps.
Stays current on security landscape and threat vectors and assesses new security trends with respect to Ontario Health’s business needs and identifies opportunities to improve the security posture of products and services and on business, technology, architecture, and solution design trends.
Stays abreast of provincial, federal, and international security attack tools, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and secure operating trends.
Guides and influences project team to align and build with an eye to OH's Information Security approved frameworks and methodology.
Develops, maintains, and evolves relationships with external organizations and communities of practice. toward the betterment of Ontario Health, Ontario, and Canada wide health system cyber security practice.
Guides and influences portfolios, partners, and health sector entities to align solutions and services to Ontario Health’s digital and cyber security vision considering provincial, national, and international mandates.
Collaborates with and guides and mentors senior, junior and peer security specialists.
Coaches developers, IT operations and architects about latest security threats and landscape and well as introducing tools and techniques as needed controls for securing OH digital assets, data, and operation.
Identifies opportunities, impacts and transformations required to realize their value and assess their implications on the future state of specific products or portfolios.
Frames information and communicates in a high-risk environment where information sharing to demonstrate transparency and trust is closely balanced with the reputational and liability risks of not sharing the appropriate information to the right audience or at the right time.
Provides subject matter expertise in various provincial and regional cyber security governance and risk management initiatives.
Consults with members and organizations in the health care community to implement security policies and related controls and to onboard them to regional and provincial health care initiatives.
Tracks the implementation and remediation activities across organizations.
Coordinates internal and external information security initiatives as a subject matter expert to reach feasible security solutions for complex problems and issues across the health care sector. Plays a leading role in the implementation and operationalization of those solutions.
Contributes to the ongoing development and maturing of the OH security program, consulting, and assurance practices.
Implements tools and processes to manage workflow and materials related to the information security governance.
Prepares and maintains security-training materials, deliver security-training sessions to various stakeholders throughout the province and within the organization.
Manages multiple clients and security related projects simultaneously and presents status updates to upper management.
Works with IT, Development, and all other OH Enterprise teams to establish appropriate security processes, controls and ensure compliance with security policies.
Takes a leading role in various OH security initiatives providing security expertise, facilitating collaboration and furthering OH's security objectives.
Operates and monitors various state of the art tools to detect, prevent and mitigate cyber security threats or risks to OH.
Works with internal and external (regional partner and vendor) stakeholders.
Collaborates with members within OH, and with the provincial and federal level cyber security counterparts to support OH and the healthcare sector from cyber threats.
Makes decisions where results have a major impact across the organization requiring on the fly recommendations to the project teams, developers, and IT operations while following the overall OH approved and Industry best practices.
BA or MBA in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field, or equivalent work experience.
6-8 years of overall working experience in technology/digital/systems roles.
3-5 of it working experience in security technologies, principles, risk management, vulnerability management, monitoring and incident response, program development, and architecture.
Certifications in cyber security (e.g., CISSP or CISA) are required, or working towards.
Experience conducting and leading Cyber Security Readiness assessments, business process analysis, continuous improvement, process redesign.
Experience evaluating existing cyber security performance, establishing cyber security KPIs, applying performance methodologies.
Experience in security governance development Policies, Standards, Procedures.
Experience with change management including design, preparation and maintenance of security training materials, proven ability to deliver security training sessions to various stakeholders within healthcare and at different scales.
Experience influencing, negotiating, and building positive relationships within the team and external parties.
Experience with and knowledge of Microsoft Office tools including SharePoint & Teams, Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server.
Strong knowledge and experience in the Evaluation and Synthesis of security risk using methodologies such as HTRA and frameworks such as ISO 27001/2 and NIST CSF. Expert understanding of risk assessment methodologies such as HTRA and CSF, and frameworks such as ISO 27001/2and NIST.
Knowledge of security architecture
Strong understanding of Security Architectural and Design concepts for products and services within Ontario Health and partners (e.g. ,Hospitals).
Evaluation of systems knowledge and experience developing and working with security architecture, and IT management frameworks such as SABSA, and CoBIT.
Experience conducting security risk assessments and threat modelling.
Broad knowledge of TRA methodologies and other risk assessment methodologies and tools, and familiarity with related security tests and test methodologies
Broad Understanding of typical security threats, vulnerabilities and safeguards relevant to application development, test and QA environments, and IT (datacenter) operations.
Strong understanding of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy. e.g., PHIPA.
Knowledge of a wide variety of information systems and security technologies including Operating Systems security, LAN and WAN, Internet protocols and applications, secure communications, firewalls, IDS/IPS, PKI, identity management, identification and authentication techniques, role-based access control, malware defenses, etc.
Knowledge and experience on a wide variety of information systems and security technologies including Operating Systems security, Cloud Security, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, Email Security, Firewalls, Container Security, Secure SDLC, etc.
Experience in leading end-to-end planning, architecture, solution development, and execution of program activities.
Superior problem-solving and analytical skills to prioritize rapidly changing incidents, investigating and troubleshooting; track implementation/remediation activities.
Superior communication skills, both orally and in writing to interpret and communicate risk management concepts; listen, facilitate, and communicate complex content and material to large and diverse audiences; understand and discuss technical concepts; develop security-related tools, policies, training, and other material; build strong relationships with clients.
Ability to motivate other team members to achieve higher goals and improve the impact of technology initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage trade-offs, and evaluate opportunistic innovative ideas with internal and external partners.
Able to quickly learn new technologies and support new projects and initiatives in a rapidly changing environment.
Ability to perform under extreme degrees of pressure during live security incidents.
Ability to develop policies, plans, standards, assessments, and strategies in compliance with legislation, policies, and standards in support of organizational cyber activities.
Strong ability to work in collaborative planning, consensus building, and influence between stakeholder with diverse interests.
Adept at managing trade-offs and evaluating opportunities for innovation with internal and external partners.
Ability to support cyber security incident response and on-call rotations.
Ability to engage with clients with competing priorities and sometimes in political settings which can have heavy impact and load on the emotions and become stressful, that would require professional and personal soft skills to handle such situations properly.
Ability to make decisions where results have a major impact across the organization.
All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.
Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; Black and racialized; members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary; and disabled.
We encourage applicants with accessibility needs to notify us if they have any accommodation needs in the application and/or interview process.
